The next generation of Surveillance, from DARPA

found this today, it makes Google maps seem outdated, slow and useless,
but, it seems it is good enough for us to use while taxpayer money goes towards better systems to control and watch the/us slaves.

Yes, therefore it makes you wonder just how higly advanced the military is with their photography capabilities, which could pretty well debunk the
debunker in the video about the impossibility of faking the lunar landings because the equipment was too 'primative'.

But of course it wont be for the whole day.
It'll just be for the time the UAV was over the area and recording.
eg...for the demo shown in that video, it looked like the city was pasted together from multiple composite "shots", each covering only a few
blocks... so each of those "shots" may have been just a few minutes in length.

Absolutely, there are space based platforms already capable of photographing a worm eating its way through an apple. Although this technology will
most likely be reserved for military and intelligence usage. Again, public law enforcement will never benefit from it, plus they dont have the money
to maintain or buy such systems.

This is from NOVA the other night. I am not that impressed. I am sure there are better. This one is cool, only because he kept cost down by using
cell phone cameras in an array, probably mounted on a convex parabolic plate. When cost is not a limitation, you can have MUCH better than that. The
software is also nothing special. Run of the mill motion detection and photo stitch on steroids.

Lets just say that AF is using some badass cameras on UAV's and planes in Afghanistan. I don't think they are quite as sophisticated as the OP's. I do
know from publically available youtube videos, that their cameras can actually track someone walking as the UAV is flying at 12,000 feet+ (and in
thermal too) from over 5 miles away.

I can't remember the name of the defense contractor that was showcasing these under-plane and UAV "turret" style cameras, but they do have youtube
videos out there of them.

This is why I call BS on taking 10+ years to track down OBL.

ETA: Yup, it's BAE Systems cameras that the AF is running on their planes and UAV's. Those little boxes help tell friend/foe and the operator can
forward that target information on to gunships or ground troops.

Absolutely, there are space based platforms already capable of photographing a worm eating its way through an apple. Although this technology will
most likely be reserved for military and intelligence usage. Again, public law enforcement will never benefit from it, plus they dont have the money
to maintain or buy such systems.

The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the
testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.

Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and
eventually by private companies as well.

The legislation would order the FAA, before the end of the year, to expedite the process through which it authorizes the use of drones by federal,
state and local police and other agencies.

The Department of Homeland Security is the only federal agency to discuss openly its use of drones in domestic airspace.

The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.

So I beg to differ, about what you think will be happening routinely.. 30,000 divided by 50 states is 600 drones per state... They'll be recording
large cities on a constant basis so as to map human behavior patterns.. You know scan out the drug dealers..

Our borders would obviously get a lot of these as would our ports.. Local agencies would have access to the data through networking after the fact and
alerted in real time to throw up a helicopter, or call out some patrols, or to use smaller cheaper drones to follow a suspect that has already had his
path mapped out.

Originally posted by MystikMushroom
As I said in another thread...I've been told our satalites can tell what type of screw (hex, phillips, flathead) is on the wing of a moving 747 from
orbit.

Urban legend.
Such stories are often told, never backed up by real life examples, and defy the laws of physics.

The resolution is limited by diffraction effects, and formulas to
calculate the resolution of an optical system are readily available on the net.
Note that this is NOT a limitation of the technology currently invented, but of the laws of physics. Invoking the other urban legend of "military
has technology 50 years before the public" will not help.

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